Remarks by Josh McBroom
33 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
- Play at 19:06
“I just wanted to bring up the traffic issues that we're hearing about. We all received an email today regarding, you know, the rerouting of Book Road and 59. And I get a lot of calls about it. And I think it's well beyond just kind of an inconvenience. And I think a lot of residents don't realize that it's not the city. So usually when we get kind of an uproar going on, I think it's usually kind of a lack of communication. So I guess I wanted to ask staff to... you know, maybe just go on the record publicly. You know, these are the things we can control. These are the things we can't control.…”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“THANK YOU, MAYOR. SO, YOU KNOW, MY, AND I DO HAVE A SUGGESTION TO ADD TO THE LIST, You know, my concerns are always slippery slope. What are these words gonna be used for in the future? Are we boxing some future council, some future city manager into financial commitments that may be reckless at the time? And so if the statement is largely symbolic, I don't know how we could have any assurances. Director Peer, you just mentioned that whatever adoption of a vision statement, the next step would be it would cause a change in our mission statement.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“As far as words, sustainability is a word that has come up all the time. We don't really get a definition of what that is. If the vision statement's meant to be vague, it causes some concerns. So my suggestion would be to simply Two that are very similar here, but I'll go ahead and start. So to maintain a financially strong, technologically adaptable electric utility, capable of meeting Naperville's future energy needs while preserving flexibility for generations to come. That's it. Thank you.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. Councilman White makes a good point. You can take all these words, technology, you can extrapolate that into what could that mean in the future? Thank you. And my concern is, where does the cost come in? Like, what are we committing to? And so it's pretty simple to me, reliability and affordability. I mean, that's really what's important to people. And sustainability, quite frankly, it's a code word. And I'm concerned that no one is able to define it for me. And if we put it into a mission statement, it's not something that are just words. It's flexible. It's something we…”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“THANK YOU, MAYOR. JUST SO, JUST TO BE CLEAR, YOUR RECOMMENDATION IS WE DON'T FOCUS ON TWO AND FOUR, ALL RIGHT?”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Okay, so find an existing joint action agency. And remind me, when we talked about the timeline, option one was a like a next year decision, like a June? FORMING OUR OWN JOINT ACTION AGENCY?”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“OKAY. THANK YOU. AND SO MY UNDERSTANDING IS, KIND OF PUSHING THIS DECISION OFF, AGAIN, WE'RE WAITING FOR A RATE STUDY THAT'LL COME IN JUNE OF NEXT YEAR. AND THAT'LL GIVE US SOME DATA. AND THAT OPTION THREE, OR MARKET PARTICIPATE, OPTION TWO, THREE TOGETHER, WHATEVER, That's going to involve planning for upfront cash and a rate stabilization fund. And is that what we're waiting on? We're waiting to see what impact that investment would have when we would have to voluntarily raise our own?”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Okay, just to be even more clear, so the rate study that we get back in June of next year is going to forecast what? we may have to pay in 2028 in increased rates if we were to pursue market with or without asset generation.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Okay. Last question, as far as market participation with asset ownership, this would be purchasing something. Do we have any idea, like costs, and would that be small, modular, nuclear, or what would that be?”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“And then just one last comment, Mayor, if I can. So... All right, so timeline, June, rate study. I'm losing my train of thought here. I had a point. Oh, so we've gone through all these options, and some of them have attractive features. They all have risk. Some of them kind of frightening risk to me and uncertainties, but I'm having an open mind and We're going to delay more, and we're going to look, I guess, look for a recommendation from you guys after we narrow it down for you. But IMEA, I don't even know if they're interested in us being a partner. I mean, I don't know. And we got a…”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“So concept design in this budget That's quite different than getting full engineering designs, right? Correct. And the number's a lot bigger, right? The difference?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
- Play at 48:48
“OK. But what's changed is the timeline of construction INSTEAD OF 2027, 2028, WE'RE TALKING 2031.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
- Play at 49:53
“Okay, so in the extending this timeline, is this a staff capacity thing or is it logistics?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. Deputy Director Morocco is Is it possible to get a project by project breakdown? And do you think that would be useful for us to see? And I assume these numbers come from some spreadsheet you have, and maybe it's an overwhelming amount of information. Is that something that council could?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Okay. Yeah, the reason why I ask, I'm going through this for several years now. You know, the CIP sometimes can be hard for people to get their arms around because it's not like the operating budget where it's like we have to pay for these things. It's meant to be flexible and high level and we may not spend all this money and we may go through an economic recession and have to, but at the same time, kind of going like Councilwoman Jane, Councilman White, sometimes we look at these numbers and it's like, what am I missing here? Here's what we think is coming in and this is what we think we're…”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“And is it correct there's $40 million or $50 million that's unfunded out of the $211? Is that right?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Is there a portion of the capital, the CIP, that's unfunded, like that we don't see revenue for or that we're going to have to borrow for?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. Going quickly back, just briefly back to the Riverwalk, I appreciate Councilman Kelly's questions. I was a little confused on what we were talking about. Just for my own clarity, Director Hines, the full projects in the CIP budget, what's the concern that we're talking about here, that we think that a bid may come in higher than what we're budgeting for and by a million dollars or... Is that what we're talking about?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Okay. Doesn't seem insurmountable, but okay. Thank you for that. As far as the parking deck goes, I agree with Councilman Kelly on the transparency and the data. I GUESS THE COUNTER TO THE NEED, I HAVE SEEN A LOT OF DATA FROM DNA AND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND I THINK IT'S, the people that these business owners want in those parking spots aren't necessarily in our Naperville survey. They don't live here. And I look at it as what, 380, 400 new shoppers. And I just think we should keep that in mind. It is very expensive to run a city. And in order to keep that property tax levy low comparatively…”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. So I just need some clarification on a vote that we had last meeting. And based on answers to my questions, maybe I'll be pulling the minutes, but it looks like we have residents that pulled the minutes anyway, so I don't know if it's on this topic, but so, and I'm not, just wanna be clear, pure clarity, I'm not looking to accuse anyone to make a mistake or doing something wrong, but in regards to the parking fund that we all voted unanimously on to shift from capital or general funds to, or pay for these routine maintenance costs from the parking fund, We had a memo on it,…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“So I just want to make, first of all, clear, does the city agree, were we doing something incorrect there? And if not, did we make a preference change, or did we correct an error?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“And that was my concern, and that's why I'm bringing it up. We can look, I mean, the minutes are getting pulled anyway, that the language in the minutes is this is how we were going to fund it moving forward. We saw a memo that, according to kind of handling it this way, I guess it was millions in the past, and there was even a suggestion we'd claw that back. I mean, I wouldn't support that. But anyway, my main concern is, Do we need to clarify what the intention of the food and beverage parking? Was it for major renovations, a new parking deck? We will be talking about a new parking deck…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. So going back to the minutes that I, topic that I just referenced. So in the minutes regarding the downtown parking fund, council, okay, so.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Should have brought my glasses here, sorry. So two things. Moving forward, staff can utilize the downtown parking fund for maintenance and new construction. So I just think there's two things that need to be clarified. One, in light of the fact that the city doesn't think that we were making an error doing this incorrectly, this appears to be just a preference change for this one item. And that we weren't directing you to move forward to spend money down from the parking deck fund. I guess council in the future could, COULD DECIDE TO DO THAT ON A CASE-BY-CASE BASIS. BUT AS FAR AS THE…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026